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| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:21 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - JereNYC 12:59 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| Sometimes the original creatives are the worst people to reconsider their material. James Lapine is particularly egregious at making changes that dilute the power of the original production/material. Give me Daniel Fish any day over James Lapine. As for "The Life", reading that they're putting some stank on the music is the first time that I've been interested in seeing this production (I saw the original on Broadway... and it was not good), but alas, not enough to drop $50 on TodayTix. |
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| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 03:53 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - Singapore/Fling 01:21 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| Well, I certainly agree about Lapine, at least as far as his changes to INTO THE WOODS in 2002 go, but my point was that this was Lapine (and Sondheim) making changes to THEIR OWN WORK, not someone else's. That is their prerogative, just as, if Da Vinci had decided to revisit the Mona Lisa and put her in a red cocktail dress, that would've been his prerogative. That is entirely different to what's happening with THE LIFE and what we see with revivals in general, where the original creative team is dead and other people are rewriting them. As we'll see with the upcoming THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH at Lincoln Center, even plays are not immune. Someone will be rewriting Thornton Wilder...and we'll see how it goes. |
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| re: Right??? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 12:30 am EDT 03/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Right??? - JereNYC 03:53 pm EDT 03/15/22 | |
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| I think I disagree with that. Once someone creates art, it then belongs to all of us. I don’t think it is the prerogative of an artist to change his prior work. | |
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